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Government Departments: Cybersecurity

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many cybersecurity incidents affecting government departments in each of the last three years originated in or involved a third-party supplier; and what steps are being taken to stre

answeredDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

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Answering body
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Tabled
13 Jul 2026
Target answer date
15 Jul 2026
Answer
3 Aug 2026 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Jul 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many cybersecurity incidents affecting government departments in each of the last three years originated in or involved a third-party supplier; and what steps are being taken to stre

  2. 15 Jul 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Aug 2026

    Answer published

    The Government is aware of the risk created by supply chain cyber security incidents and is taking a range of steps to strengthen cyber resilience across government’s supply chains. These include embedding cyber security considerations into commercial and...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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